Neuro

Neuro

  The Human Brain

• Frontal Lobe

• Parietal Lobe

• Occipital Lobe

• Temporal Lobe

• Cerebellum

• Brain stem

Frontal Lobe

The frontal lobes are important for voluntary movement, expressive language and for managing higher level executive functions. Executive functions refer to a collection of cognitive skills including the capacity to plan, organise, initiate, self-monitor and control one's responses in order to achieve a goal.

Multiple Choice

What is the Frontal lobe used for?

• voluntary movement, expressive language and for managing higher level executive functions

• expressive language

• voluntary movement, expressive language

Parietal Lobe

The parietal lobes can be divided into two functional regions. One involves sensation and perception and the other is concerned with integrating sensory input, primarily with the visual system. The first function integrates sensory information to form a single perception (cognition).

Multiple Choice

How many sections can the Parietal Lobe be divided in?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Occipital Lobe

The occipital lobe is the visual processing area of the brain. It is associated with visuospatial processing, distance and depth perception, color determination, object and face recognition, and memory formation.

Multiple Choice

What area of the brain is the Occipital Lobe

• visual processing area of the brain

• Sensory part of the brain

Temporal Lobe

The temporal lobe is involved in primary auditory perception, such as hearing, and holds the primary auditory cortex. The primary auditory cortex receives sensory information from the ears and secondary areas process the information into meaningful units such as speech and words.

Multiple Choice

What is the Temporal Lobe involved in?

• primary auditory perception

• Autism

Cerebellum

Coordination of voluntary movements. Most movements are composed of a number of different muscle groups acting together in a temporally coordinated fashion. One major function of the cerebellum is to coordinate the timing and force of these different muscle groups to produce fluid limb or body movements.

Brain stem

The brainstem has many basic functions, including regulation of heart rate, breathing, sleeping, and eating. It also plays a role in conduction. All information relayed from the body to the cerebrum and cerebellum and vice versa must traverse the brainstem